Benoît de Boursetty, product manager at YouTube, said: “ Starting today, you can share videos with your friends and family directly on YouTube. Not only can you share and receive videos in the app, you can also chat about them right on YouTube, reply with another video, invite others to the conversation, and more.

“We think it’ll make sharing easier, faster and more fun on your phone. And if you want to continue sharing videos through other apps, you can still do that too.

The new feature lives in a devoted tab in the app, and YouTube no doubt hopes it stops people sharing the videos on third party platforms like Facebook, Messenger or even WhatsApp.

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